Originally posted by: HearMeRoar
What Bheema did may have been playful to him, but it wouldn't have been to the ones at the receiving end. I am definitely not a Kaurava fan, but there is no sugarcoating this. The Pandavas started the fighting.
Violent bullying by children is still violence. No excuses.
What's more, the adults didn't intervene. Not only that, they later punished one side and let the other go scot free.
Bheeshma, Vidura et al were fool enough to believe the situation was conducive to sibling camaraderie as adults? Vidura I can understand to some extent as Vyasa later says he was Yudhishtira's father. What about Bheeshma? Where was he in all this?
When adults refuse to put a stop to such blatant violence, kids will find their own ways to cope. If physical assault was part of kshatriya games, then perhaps so was poisoning. I know it wasn't, but people really shouldn't attempt to justify the unjustifiable, be it Bheema's violence or Suyodhana's poisoning attempt.
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